Laws as Spiders' Webs1
The Sage Solon's Views on Laws
(from Diogenes Laertius's Lives of Eminent Philosophers)
SOLON, one of the seven Sages, compared laws to spiders’ webs. They stand firm when a light and yielding object falls upon them, but a larger and stronger thing can break through them and be free of them.
Endnotes
1 Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers I.58. ⇑
